[PATCH v4 1/2] drivers: bus: simple-pm-bus: Add support for probing simple bus only devices

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:07 AM Saravana Kannan <saravanak at google.com> wrote:
> fw_devlink could end up creating device links for bus only devices.
> However, bus only devices don't get probed and can block probe() or
> sync_state() [1] call backs of other devices. To avoid this, probe these
> devices using the simple-pm-bus driver.
>
> However, there are instances of devices that are not simple buses (they get
> probed by their specific drivers) that also list the "simple-bus" (or other
> bus only compatible strings) in their compatible property to automatically
> populate their child devices. We still want these devices to get probed by
> their specific drivers. So, we make sure this driver only probes devices
> that are only buses.
>
> [1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAPDyKFo9Bxremkb1dDrr4OcXSpE0keVze94Cm=zrkOVxHHxBmQ@mail.gmail.com/
> Fixes: c442a0d18744 ("driver core: Set fw_devlink to "permissive" behavior by default")
> Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak at google.com>
> Tested-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak at google.com>
> Tested-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Works fine on R-Car Gen/Gen3 (simple-bus), and SH-Mobile AG5
and R-Mobile APE6 (simple-pm-bus).
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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